Archive for January 2007

Chocolate

Jan 30th

Posted by Daniel Meyer in Mood

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Sooo….

Picture this.

Take a small lunch sack (or bag for you non-southern readers)…the brown paper kind that’s waxed.

In a double boiler, melt about 6 ounces of high-quality, very dark chocolate.

Pour it into the sack. Swish it around till the entire inside is coated. Set upright in the freezer.

When hard, tear the sack off, and what you have left, is a chocolate sack…a chocolate sack that the extra chocolate ran to the bottom to give you a candy-bar thickness for the bottom.

Fill the chocolate sack to within an inch of the top with a whipped white chocolate mousse. Fill the remaining space with fresh strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries.

Serve up as dessert.

Oooooo…yeah…

This topped off my dinner in Providence last Thursday of Fettucini Alfredo with bay shrimp and sea scallops, served up by the tiny little naturally flirty thing with the really nice knock…ur…the really low-slung tight black top. Yeah, she leaned way over and started describing dark chocolate and forbidden fruit and I didn’t even ask how much it cost. I didn’t care. It turned out to cost nearly as much as the entrée actually. I still don’t care.

There’s a story in the middle of this…a story of turmoil…of restlessness…of the dark side of the man…of wild eyes and pain, passion, and loneliness two-thousand miles from home, without even The Dragon to help me outrun it. A mixture of darkly male thoughts, sapped creativity, swirling feelings, and utter exhaustion that even chocolate couldn’t help to quell.

But that’s another story.

Or is it? There’s distance…creatures of the night…unthinkably cold temperatures…and steel and blood.

Perhaps I’ll tell it later.

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

Security?

Jan 28th

Posted by Daniel Meyer in Lunacy

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So, here’s my problem with airport security.

Whilst I’m in Boston being professionally assaulted by the airport screener because of their crappy, defective equipment…

Him, at the end: “Well, I guess it was the rivits on your jeans it was picking up.”
Me: “Doesn’t work very well then does it?”

Anyway, as I have some 6 foot guy feeling up my feet (these people are criminally insane…and from now on before I fly I’m not changing my socks for a week), I’m eyeing the 40 pound laptop computer and bag I’ve been hauling around the airport all day.

Now why am I hauling this around instead of checking it?

The airline and the ~~giant employment agency for ex-high-school bullies~~ TSA tell me that the baggage is not secure enough for me to check valuables…and that they cannot be responsible for it arriving at my destination if I do check it.

Hmmm…the bag I hand to the airline employee that is immediately sent to their secure area…and remains inside that secure area until it spits out on the baggage carousel at the end…is NOT secure. Somebody could open it, remove items, and get them out of the airport.

There’s the rub, ya know? If somebody can open it and remove items…then they can open it and insert items.

Meanwhile, 7 “security” guys are involved in feeling my feet.

Yeah. I feel safe. How about you?

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

Books and Stuff

Jan 19th

Posted by Daniel Meyer in Writing

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The Magic UPS guy showed up today, and I now have plenty of ALL the titles in stock, in both hard AND soft cover (several had been listed as “limited quantity” on my order page for a few days now).

So. Order away!

On a related note…I will not be shipping anything ordered after 6pm Sunday Jan 21 until I get back from my business trip next week. So, order before Sunday if you want them next week. I also encourage you to go ahead and order next week if you’re in the market. I’ll ship everything ordered next week on Monday, Jan 22…and they do go fast…

You can, of course, order from lulu or Amazon or any of my other suppliers as well. Their shipping schedule is not affected by my business trip (LOL!)

Y’all (that’s a Texas technical term) have a safe (or at least fun) week!

CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer

Headed for Rhode Island…Hide the Wimmen!

Jan 16th

Posted by Daniel Meyer in Lunacy

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I’m headed for Providence, Rhode Island next week on business. Got some workflow to work on…some scripting to script…some files to file…some tiffs to … never mind. You get the picture! Newspaper workflow ‘puter stuffs.

Should be a fun trip. I really don’t like to travel for business all that much…but the city (downtown) is pretty cool and the newspaper is…well…a newspaper. I’ve got a bit of ink in my blood I expect, and I do like working on needed projects. More >